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About this project

My photographic work as it stands now is an initial
investigation into understanding the fantasy that the early days of flight
brought to the world. With my images I want to, even if its a moment, suspend
reality and enjoy the nostalgia of looking at airplanes take off and landing.
Standing in locations that are so close to the runways that it seems if you
reached just high enough, maybe on your tip toes you could just maybe brush
your fingers against the bottom of these metallic monstrosities, and when that
moment is finished be rushed back into the reality that I just witnessed a
miracle of science of a 10,000 pound metal tube lifting off the ground.

With the suspension of reality comes of course a academic
theory, one that harkens to my days in film school. The theory of suspension of
disbelief seems to fit very nicely into the idea’s I previously spoke of, even
though I recognize there is no magic or mystery to the fact that an airplane
can fly due to various physical principals, because of the location where the
images are taken it lends the ability for me to be taken away from the reality
that we all live within, and much like when watching a movie, being transported
into a third reality, where there is still mystery and magic and stories become visible imagery.

Photo's from the series as it stands now can be viewed on my website at: